| ASTP |
The Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy (ASTP) / Office of the National Coordinator is a US government administrative body responsible for digital health |
| BPMN |
Business Process Model & Notation – a published specification of the Object Management Group (OMG) |
| CARD (metaphor) |
A CCG CARD is metaphorically used to describe an evidence-based care recommendation. CARD is an acronym for Condition, Action, and Resulting Data. There is one CARD per recommendation – and when the Condition is true, the Action is recommended and when the Action is taken, there is Resulting Data. Multiple CARDs related to a care guideline are contained in a CCG Folder (see Folder (metaphor)). |
| Care Plan Contributor (actor) |
An actor that may be able to search for and retrieve a patient’s Care Plan from a Care Plan Service and can save a new or updated Care Plan to a Care Plan Service. |
| Care Plan Service (actor) |
An actor that maintains patient Care Plans and which can respond to transactional requests from a Care Plan Contributor actor. |
| CCG |
Computable Care Guideline - a set of evidence-based care recommendations expressed in a format that may be ingested by and operationalized by a digital health solution. |
| CPG-on-FHIR |
An Implementation Guide (IG) developed by the HL7 Clinical Decision Support working group (IG found here: https://hl7.org/fhir/uv/cpg/2024Jan/index.html) |
| DMN |
Decision Model & Notation – a published specification of the Object Management Group (OMG). |
| EMR |
Electronic Medical Records digital health solution |
| Folder (metaphor) |
A CCG Folder is a container metaphor. There will be a Folder to contain all of the care recommendations related to a particular care guideline (e.g. Diabetes, Childhood Immunization, HIV, etc.). See also CARD (metaphor). |
| Guideline Engine (actor) |
An actor that can ingest a submitted bundle of relevant contextual and person-centric content and execute the processing logic needed to return the appropriate response(s) indicating what care actions are recommended. |
| Guideline Performer (actor) |
An actor that can directly or indirectly interact with a human user, construct appropriate encounter-specific artefacts (e.g. a bundle containing relevant contextual and person-centric content), and manage the iterative invocation of $apply operations that will concurrently process one or more relevant CCGs. |
| Guideline Publisher (actor) |
An actor that may find and retrieve an existing CCG from a Guideline Repository and can publish a CCG to a Guideline Repository. |
| Guideline Repository (actor) |
An actor that can receive and catalogue a submitted CCG and can respond to searches / requests for CCGs and return relevant lists / artefacts to a requester |
| HL7 |
Health Level Seven – a global standards development organization focused on digital health |
| IHE Deployment Committee |
IHE’s deployment committees are established to foster adoption of IHE specifications within a country or region (e.g. Canada, France, Europe, etc.). The contextualization of an IHE Profile for use within a jurisdiction (e.g. Canada, or Europe) would be governed by the relevant jurisdictional deployment committee (e.g. IHE Canada, or IHE Europe). |
| IHE Domain Committee |
IHE’s technical committees are established to develop implementable, conformance-testable digital health specifications related to specific domains of healthcare such as Patient Care Coordination (PCC); Quality, Research & Public Health (QRPH); Radiology (RAD), etc. Specifications leveraged across the other domains are typically developed by IHE’s IT Infrastructure (ITI) technical committee. |
| IPS |
International Patient Summary - a globally balloted specification that describes information about a care subject that is important to supporting their care continuity. |
| LHS |
Learning Health System - the application of a continuous quality improvement cycle on the operations of an entire care delivery network |
| LMIC |
Low- and middle-income Countries as defined by the World Bank categorization (https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org/knowledgebase/articles/906519-world-bank-country-and-lending-groups) |
| mCSD |
mobile Care Services Discovery – an IHE Profile focused on digital health content related to care locations, providers, organizations and services and the relationships between these |
| NCD |
Non-communicable diseases - sometimes also referred to as “chronic diseases” |
| npm |
Node Package Manager - a standard grammar for defining computable software packages |
| OECD |
Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development |
| ONC |
The Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy / Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) is a US government administrative body responsible for digital health |
| SMS |
Short Message Service – messages sent/received via mobile phones; commonly known as “text messages” |
| SNOMED |
Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine - SNOMED International is a global standards development organization focused on terminologies for healthcare; their key publication is SNOMED CT (clinical terminology) |
| USCDI |
US Core Data for Interoperability - a core data set defined by ASTP/ONC to support digital health data exchange in the US |
| VBHS |
Value-based Health Services - also sometimes called value-based care (VBC) |
| WHO |
World Health Organization |
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